Vets won't lose benefits

[Luddly Neddite]

Veterans Benefits Won't Be Cut Through Sequestration, Obama Assures

Vets shouldn't get complacent though because Rs have said they want to cut vet benefits. Several have said they want to make the VA into a voucher system. VA hospitals are already pretty grim and if the Rs get their way, it will get a lot worse.

 

[GuyPinestra]

Veterans Benefits Won't Be Cut Through Sequestration, Obama Assures

Vets shouldn't get complacent though because Rs have said they want to cut vet benefits. Several have said they want to make the VA into a voucher system. VA hospitals are already pretty grim and if the Rs get their way, it will get a lot worse.

Link?

 

[OODA_Loop]

Oh Obama assures.

Right.

Fool me once, well you know.

 

[Lakhota]

Thank you, Mr. President. However, Cons make the future scary for vets.

 

[Lakhota]

By Jamie Reno

But perhaps more significantly, the group’s national co-chairs, who will advise Romney on veteran policy if he is elected, include James Nicholson, former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under President George W. Bush.

Some veterans advocates say Romney’s decision to tap Nicholson, who abruptly resigned from the VA in 2007 amid controversy, as well as Anthony Principi and James Peake, who also presided over the VA during George W. Bush’s two terms in the White House, could signal that Romney will embrace some of the policies of the Bush years, which were widely considered to be tough times for veterans.

“A Romney presidency would be a disaster for veterans, as evidenced by whom he’s chosen to advise him,” says Patrick Bellon, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, a veterans’ advocacy organization. “I think these choices should give all Americans pause. How can voters support a candidate who is showing so clearly that he learned nothing from Bush’s failures? It would be a mistake to trust people like Nicholson who failed veterans in such epic fashion.”​

More: Will Veterans Lose if Mitt Romney Wins? - The Daily Beast

 

[Lakhota]

Oh, boy. Mitt Romney wants to privatize the VA.

This is awesome on multiple levels. First, you know what voucherization would mean in practice: the vouchers would be inadequate, and become more so over time, so that veterans who don’t make enough money to top them up would fail to receive essential care. Patriotism!

Vouchers For Veterans - NYTimes.com

Political Animal - Romney eyes vouchers for veterans

 

[Chris]

Vets will lose benefits when Republicans lower taxes for the rich to zero.

 

[Rat in the Hat]

Vets will lose benefits when Republicans lower taxes for the rich to zero.